Juice extractor



Sept. 27, 1927.

G. F. MARSHALL ET AL JUI CE EXTRAC'IOR Filed Feb. 25. 1925 2Sheets-Sheet l G Ella mania/Z3 61 'a afl'mjizw ATTOR N EY WITNESS:

Sept. 27, 1927.

G. F. MARSHALL ET AL JUICE EXTRACTOR Filed Feb. 25. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet2 WITNESS:

INVENTORS ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 27, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE "E. MARSHALL AND CHARLES W. VOGT, F TAMPA, FLORIDA.

JUICE EXTRAGTOR.

Application filed February 25, 1925. Serial No. 11,592.

This invention relates to juice extractors and contemplates theprovision of a novel form/0t implement which includes gouging meanswithin a suitable receptacle, means for rotating the gouger means withinthe receptacle whereby the juice from citrus fruit may be drawn from thefruit and drained from the receptacle.

Another object of the invention is that it will extract all of the pulpand juice from oranges, grape fruit, lemons and limes without taking thebitter oils and acids from the "skin, and if the orange or the like isressed on the gouger easily it will crush all the cells in the fruit,and if pressed har d upon the gouger it will gouge out the iruit inpieces for making desserts and pudd ngs.

A further object of the invention is that it may be quickly and easilyoperated, very easily cleaned owing to the sect1ona1 or separableconstruction of the device, and that it is a household convenience andwhich may be sold at a price within reach of most housewives.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention further includes the following novel features and detailsof construction, to

be hereinafter more fully described, illusp d and which snugly receivestherein the bearmember 20, this receptacle member 24,

trated in the accompanying drawings, an pointed out in the appendedclaims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective of the invention attached to a table.

Figure 2 is a sectional perspective of the upper portion of thesupporting means with the rotating means journaled therein.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the gouging means.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectionof the invention shown appliedto atable.

Figure 5 is a similar view of the gouging means per se.

Figure 6 is a perspective of the receptacle.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein like characters ofreference denote corresponding parts,'the reference character 10.

indicates a standard having legs 11 extending downwardly from the upperportion thereof and which are adapted to be flush with the upper side orsurface of a table or the like 12, the lower portion of the standardincludes an inwa dly-extending offset portion 13 which has threadedtherein an adjusting screw 14 which is adapted to engage the lowersidepf the table 12 in order that the.

standard 10 may be held vertically or securely to the table. An enlargedtransversely forward portion 15 is provided in the standard 10 above thelegs 11 and has journaled therein a correspondingly extending shaftmember 16 which includes a gear 17 and handle 18 upon the opposite endportions thereof. A transversely disposed platform portion 19 isprovided upon the upper portion of the standard 10 and extends directlyover the gear 17 and in spaced relation thereto, formed integral withand extending vertically of is a bearing member 20.

Mounted for vertical rotary movement within a bearing member 20 is adriven shaft 21 which extends an appreciable distance above the upperperiphery of the bearing member 20 and includes a transversely extendingpin member 22 therein which engages'and rotates upon the upper side ofthe bearing member 20; fixed to the opposite end portion of the drivenshaft 21 is a gear 23 which meshes with the gear member 17 and connectedwith the driving shaft 16.

A receptacle member 24 including a raised bottom portion 25 and avertically disposed apertured sleeve portion 26 extending from thevertical center of the raised bottom 25 mg further includes an elongatedopening 27 adjacent to the lower edge thereof from which the citrusfruit juice is drained into a suitable receptacle as indicated at 28Figure 1 of the drawings.

The bowl or receptacle 24 further includes an annular flange 25' uponthe underside and which projects downwardly as far as the elongatedopening 27 and the sleeve portion 26 in order that the bowl per se maysit fiat and. upright upon a table or the like with less susceptibilityof the same from tilting or falling over and breaking.

A gouger member 29 having a plurality of helically pitched blade members30 upon the upper sides thereof and which are shaped so as to cut andextract all of the juice from the citrus cells of the fruit and withoutgouging within the skins of the fruit in order that the bitter oils andacids may not be mixed with the juice within the container or receptacle24. The lower side of the gougcr member 29 includes a socket 31 and intowhich the upper end portion of the" upon the handle member 18 that thegears 17 and 23 will be rotated and turn the goug ing member 29 withinthe receptacle 24c whereby split or halved fruit may be placed and heldagainst the helically pitched blade 30 upon the upper side of thegouging member 29 whereby the juice and cells of the fruit may bewithdrawn from the hull or skin of the fruit and passed through theelongated opening in the lower side of the receptacle 24 and drain intothe auxiliary receptacle 28 placed directly thereunder and the juice mayreadily and easily be Withdrawn from the fruit at a maximum rate ofspeed without removing the receptacle and emptying. the same aftergouging each piece of fruit.

It is also to be noted that owing to the peculiar shape of the helicallypitched cut ting blade 30 upon the upper side of the gouging member 29that all fruits may be placed on this member without boring or gougingthe rind, hulls or the like of the fruits whereby the bitter oils andacids will pot be withdrawn from the skins of the ruita The invention issusceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minordetails of construction, and the rightis herein reserved to make suchchanges as properly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described our invention what is claimed is:

1. Ajuice extractor comprising a rotatable standard extended through abearing sleeve, a pin extended through the standard and engageable withthe adjacent end of the sleeve, a gouging member provided with a socketportion receiving the standard, said member is further providej withelongated slots located at diametrically opposite sides of the socketopening to receive portions of the pin, and a receptacle carried by'thesleeve.

2. A juice extractor comprising a rotatable standard extended through abearing, apin extended through the standard and engageable with theadjacent end of the sleeve, a receptacle provided with a centrallyraised bottom communicating with an opening therein, a sleeve dependingfrom the receptacle bottom adjacent the opening and receiving saidbearing, and a gouging member carried by the standard within thereceptacle.

i In testimony whereof we 'afix our signatures.

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